Two Pierce County deputies are in serious condition after being “ambushed” by

Two Pierce County deputies are in serious condition after being “ambushed” by David Crable, a 35-year-old Eatonville man with a history of violent behavior.According to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office, the two deputies were called to an Eatonville home sometime before 9 PM last night to deal with an “unwanted guest.” The call was apparently placed by Crable’s brother. When he invited the cops into his house, Crable the suspect came downstairs armed with a rifle and handgun and opened fire.One of the cops, a sergeant, was shot once and is in stable condition at an army hospital in Fort Lewis. The other, a deputy, was shot multiple times and is in critical condition at Harborview. Crable, shot when the Pierce County cops returned fire, died in the shootout.Pierce County Sheriff’s spokesman Ed Troyer says that Crable has “a long history of terrorizing his family.” KOMO News says that records show Crable was convicted of two crimes just this past June.Crable was accused of threatening his 16-year-old daughter with a kitchen knife, shoving her up against a wall and slapping her across the head. When his brother tried to interfere, Crable grabbed him by the throat and pushed him out of the house.By means of a plea deal, Crable was able to get probation for all but one day of his year-long sentence. He was also ordered to have no “hostile contact” with his brother or daughter.At the time of the domestic disturbance that precipitated the shootings, both Crable’s brother and daughter were in the house.According to Troyer, some of the cops investigating this latest shooting were the same who assisted in the manhunt for Maurice Clemmons, the man who gunned down four Lakewood officers last month in the deadliest attack on law-enforcement in state history.That was preceded by the Halloween-night murder of Seattle Officer Timothy Brenton. Which means, in the last two months, there have been eight cops shot in the last two months.